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One of the things I am doing to better myself and
find a place of normalcy inside my head, is to be involved in a book
study with some of the guys from church. There are only three of us
in this group, and I know both of them well enough but we are
getting to know each other better with each meeting. As you might
imagine a small group allows for relationship building, the whole
idea. The book we are reading, again, is, Wild At Heart, by
John Eldredge.
I have been through two “boot camps” based upon
this book and participated in a book study with this book before, but
this time I think I am getting it. What changed? Me! And our leader
said, “We all have the field manual that goes along with this book,
so let's answer those questions and come back each week prepared to
talk about what we wrote.” Now consider that I have already been in
a recovery group for nine months at this point. And I, with a little
prompting, decided to answer the recovery questions that our manuals
ask us…

Having gone to the tomb and finding it empty the ladies are confronted by an angel who tells them to go and tell the disciples, but John did not tell us that. We need to look at Mark's gospel which would have been conveyed to him by Peter. Peter had not been there, so how did Peter know all this? Mary (We cannot exclude that the others were there with her.)

What is the report? The tomb is empty; Jesus is gone, and someone who just appeared out of nowhere told us to go tell the disciples.

Do John and Peter analyze all this information, comparing it with the comments that Jesus had made and make some decisive conclusions that motive them to investigate for themselves because they need foundational information for their next sermons?

Get real! What you hear barely registers - you are still in shock. The man that loved you like no one else ever had, and while you stayed by his side he took care of every need you had has died and was buried in that tomb, and now he is gone. You don…

That's the kind of question you might ask at a crime
scene. Oh man, that just made me think of the safety films we had to
watch at the phone company. A company vehicle waits for the train to go
by and then pushes the accelerator hard unaware that a train is coming
on the second set of tracks. Blam! The next question was, did you as a
driver get out of your vehicle and ask for witnesses. Alright it wasn't exactly like that but there was a demand placed upon us as drivers to get
witnesses because everybody out there was going to look at the large
corporation as having deep pockets and the story will quickly change
and it will be your fault. Wait
a minute. The disciples did not put Jesus on that cross; how could
anyone possibly say that it was their fault? It is an odd world we live
in. One where wrong has now become right, if it is not solidly that way
the fine citizens our nations are trying to make it so. Consider the
demand that the same chief priests that put J…

(I will confess that my notes, covering ten verses, are ten
pages long. I am not one of those post a day people, my brain does not
work that efficiently. And prepping for bible study takes me several
days. Because I do not want to inundate you I am cutting this into
segments.

One other thing. I fairly consistently end each of my
posts with a tie into how you can have this life in Christ that the
disciples found. I suppose it is as simple as what the thief on the
cross did; he acknowledged that Jesus was a man who had done no wrong.
He said this because he had an understanding, and we are not given any
clarity on that prior to these men being hung on their crosses. That
understanding was translated into him acknowledging Jesus and as simple
as it seems, having a faith in him. Jesus Christ put himself on that
cross for you, to gain your freedom from the bondage of sin. He rose
from the grave so that you could have a place secured for you with the
Father. Place your fait…

About Me

I have a couple of daughters. Two AS degrees but no bachelors degree. The longest time I spent at any one job was 15 years. I have not been the great success I had dreamed I would be, but I find that I am becoming more content. The most important thing to me any more is God's word. It is my passion. I am often thoroughly disgusted with the lack of enthusiasm that, so called Christians have for God's word. If the only person they destroyed, because of their lack of learning was themselves then I suppose that would be okay, but by spewing out things that are wrong or ridiculous they take others down with them.